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I’ve never been to a protestival before
It’s fun! This one was everything that traditionally happens at a summer weekend gathering by the sea, but with real, community-level politics. If you walk along to the west end of Hastings seafront, you come to a pleasant, green space but with signs of the demolition of the former bathing pool, now ingeniously turned into…
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Saturday in Parliament Square
*** Guest post from Leah Levane *** So today I happened to be passing Parliament Square where there was clearly something going on. Peaceful – and very quiet – protestors were standing by the Nelson Mandela statue. I understand that they had gathered around midday, or perhaps 1pm and by the time I got there…
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This woman won’t wheesht about Palestine
I think one of the most disastrous things that’s happened as our lives moved online is that ‘block’ function on social media. I think we’ve brought up a generation of humans who can’t cope with the fact that they can’t block everyone they don’t like in real life. What’s even more destructive is that it’s…
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Please don’t wait for Jeremy
Apart from anything else, I have a feeling it’s the last thing he wants you to do. If he’s learned the same lessons I have from being involved with the assemblies movement, he’ll be hoping like hell that you’re just getting on with it, your way. We really, seriously do need that thing everyone’s been…
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It all becomes easier when you realise politicians aren’t using the same dictionary as us
If you were a Labour Party member during the leadership election and the early days of Keir Starmer, you’ll remember all the wry jokes about his stated aim of creating ‘a party of unity’. We very quickly saw that his method of achieving this was to root out and expel anyone who wasn’t his preferred…
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This is what lefty feminism looks like
There’s something I’ve been busting to tell you for ages – and then I could, but all week, I haven’t (remember that feminist quip from the 1970s – I was going to start a revolution but I couldn’t get a babysitter?) I love Ros Sitwell. I’ve been trying to grab some time to write about…
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Nae King II
Nae King I was my response to the penultimate devolution/re-structuring consultation in Hastings. You can read about that here… I went to HBC’s final one yesterday, and there were more people and more ideas than at the last but Nae King II is not a report on that meeting so much as a development of…
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Hastings demands… Nae King!
Journalists and others have been commenting on the lack of interest Hastings has shown in the demise of HBC but, it seems to me that Hastings is only just finding out it’s happening. As we set off up the West Hill on Monday for the first of the two discussions on the topic that Hastings…
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Come to the pre-party party!
The government just isn’t working for us, and now our local council is about to be pulled from under our feet – well, to a great extent, the council wasn’t working for us any more, either but – what’s left for us? A month or so back, we had a big meeting at Winding Street…
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They were not criminals
Most people have never liked war much and the vast majority of us have never liked war crimes at all. Some people — quite a lot of people, actually — will go to quite a lot of work to prevent war crimes, if they can see a way. A few years ago, I wrote about…
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